It's possible to get through an ordeal. But what can you do when it takes hold: a long-term illness, bereavement, disability, a family rift? Interviewed for RCF Sanctuaires normands, Father Charles Lenoir, who has himself experienced burn-out, gives us 4 keys to overcoming the ordeal that lasts.
What brought Christian Layral, a former drug-addicted partygoer, to Montligeon? Watching this man with a neatly combed white beard pray for hours a day in the basilica, how hard to imagine his journey to conversion.
Can the damned, the very people whom, in our imagination, are roasting in the fires of hell, change their mind after all? Find out more with Rev. Fr. Thomas Lapenne who refreshes a few truths on what hell is about, and how the dramatic possibility of ending there out of one's free will engages one's responsibility in one's daily life.
Sometimes it takes only a few words to help someone let go and pass away. Drawing from her experience as a nurse and that of accompanying people at the end of life, Sister Cecilia recalls how a liberating cue allowed a dying woman to let go and pass away in peace.
The Archbishop of Kinshasa, Fridolin Cardinal Ambongo, was interviewed by Radio Maria Congo on 12 November 2023. For him, the shrine of Montligeon epitomizes the place where to be in communion with our brothers and sisters who have entered into the great mystery of death.
« En dehors de l'Église, point de salut ». Cet adage apparaît pour beaucoup, en cette première moitié du XXIᵉ siècle, comme légèrement étroit d'esprit. Pour poser la question autrement : peut-on aller au ciel sans baptême ?
Nowadays the feast of All Saints' Day often get mixed up with the Day of the Dead. What is the difference? What is the meaning of All Saints' Day? Why a Day of the Dead? Explinations by Rev. Fr. Paul Denizot.
Enrolling people in the Montligeon Fraternity, Adrianna knows all about it! She does regularly enrol in it both the deceased and the living. She tells us why.
This autumn, France will look into a law project aiming at legalising assisted suicide and euthanasia. Why should we fight it and how? Because legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide, which, contrary to common belief, is currently practised by only a handful of countries worldwide represents an absolute break with our way of living in society
"I believe in the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting; and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come." So does confess Catholic faith. Yet, in what kind of "body" are we to undergo resurrection? What will become of our body then?
